Professional Learning Communities

Team,

Thank you for a safe and productive start to the 2019-20 school year.  We want to officially welcome our newest staff members:

Paula Forrest - ECE instructional assistant -- room 209
Kasey Coke-Murphy - 3rd grade teacher -- room 315
Michele Metcalfe - 5th grade teacher -- room 311
Alicia McBride - ECE primary resource teacher -- room 204

Please reach out and introduce yourself over the next couple of days if you haven't already.

This week, we begin our weekly PLC (professional learning community) meetings on Tuesday.  Tuesday was the staff voted day of the week for this work.    PLC minutes should be turned in to White by Wednesday morning @ 9AM, team leaders will ensure this is completed.  With PLC work, please be sure to take care of the following:

• Reading and math SMART goals (started during AIS week) -- Add to PLC minutes
• Reading and math groups (started these during AIS week) -- Attach list to PLC minutes
• Ensure all students are listed and updated on your class universal profile -- Note this is complete in PLC minutes
• Please look over the different ways to post learning targets and success criteria (examples will be in your mailbox)
• Update reading unit plans by end of the day Friday 

This Friday we will have the first of four visits by our NWEA Consultant, Athena Hill.  She will support our school with using our MAP data to impact student learning.  You will need to bring the following with you to room 104 during your plan time (this includes Special Area teachers -- you will be given a class report to view)

• Printed CLASS BREAKDOWN by goal report from MAP
• Log into MAP reporting site (teach.mapnwea.org)
• Click View Reports
• Click MAP Growth Reports
• Click Class Breakdown
• Fill in drop-down menu
• Select by Goal button
• Select desired subject from drop down menu
• Click Create PDF report button
• Download and print
• A lesson plan you will teach within the first few weeks of school
• A fully charged device and login/password for MAP

We will have faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon beginning at 4:00 PM in the library.  We will continue our work with compliance items and building systems of support.

Last, we will begin walkthroughs this week in all classrooms.  The following are look fors:

• Posted standards, learning targets, and success criteria (how do students know what they are learning)
• Posted schedules outside your classroom doors -- looking to see alignment with scheduled times and classroom activities
• Evidence of student engagement -- (examples include --discussion, asking and answering questions, turn and talk, actively working on assignments, direct instruction, small group instruction, working in learning centers, formative assessment, etc.)
• Student work -- what are students working on?
• Evidence of classroom expectations, use of Class Dojo -- (posted expectations, reminders, student ownership)

Have an awesome week, reach out if you have questions.